8 Stretch Yourself: Questions And Answers On Practicing the High Roundhouse Kick
This is the eighth installment of my column on training that appeared in May 2000 issue of TaeKwonDo Times. This article answers questions about...
On Kettlebells and Tire Flips: Or When Good Things Go Fad
A good idea can be turned into a fad by mindless followers. Mindful people use whatever tools they come across to their best advantage...
Police Officer Survival Guide – To Be Armed Off Duty
A dilemma for officers is whether to be armed off duty or not.
Statistics on assaults against off-duty officers are given in a publication released...
Sanchin Kata
Kata (exercises or forms) are performed in many styles of martial arts. With the help of these particular forms of exercise, many diverse techniques...
Is Someone Watching You? Men Committing Lewd Acts
This was not the first call I had to deal with where men watched women from a distance, committing lewd acts. Most of the...
Tactical Firearm Training For Civilians
Photo 1: Morne Swanepoel training with a Assault rifle under the watchful eye of USA Swat and Special forces expert, Sgt. Jim Wagner.
Photo 2: Tactical...
History of the Nunchaku
To explaining the origin of the nunchaku, we must look at different historical paths including ancient history and old stories and tales. With the...
Safety on the Streets: Recognize How Danger Escalates
As a student of the ninja personal protection martial art, based on fighting principles developed for intelligence gatherers in Japan centuries ago, you are...
After Surgery
Information on this Web page is for educational use only, and is not intended as medical advice.
Every attempt has been made for accuracy, but...
Combat Triage: General Conditioning: The Fighter’s Repose
Downtime Training: The Fighter's repose is about training your body to repair. For the true fighter, there is never any real off-time. When a fighter...
Trapping Range and the Rhythm of Combat
Trapping range has been said to be the most combative of ranges. The reason being is the weapons that can be employed (Legs, Fists,...
3 Stretch Yourself: Your Potential to Do a Front Split
Stretch Yourself: Testing Your Potential to Do a Front Split
This is the third installment of my column on training that appeared in May 1999...
Nunchaku
Since Bruce Lee exposed the wider world to the humble nunchaku, a whole industry has developed around this much misrepresented weapon. Unfortunately this industry,...
Stripes and Bars: Self-discipline
NOT TOO LONG AGO, I was asked to identify the one leadership characteristic that rises above all others as the most important. Though I...
Jim Wagner My Self-Defense Instructor: The Will To Survive Drill
In this My Self-Defense Instructor video Jim Wagner, of Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection, discusses his will to survive drill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVG84TxvsIU
SUBJECT: The Will To Survive
PURPOSE:...
Defense Theory: Street Effective Practice
One of the major factors that distinguish "realistic" fighting systems from more traditional styles, is in the close simulation of a "live" combat situation...